Today was really fun !> It began with a group of Gabe’s freinds from work coming over for yoga at 10.. that ended up being a. fun. hang out that lasted almost to 3 ! We had Sylvia, Inez and Nadja . They are all in Gabe’s program here. Nadja is a post doc like Gabe and Sylvia and Inez our PhD students. Pretty international and crowd Nadja is from Germany so he has from Italy and has his from Argentina.

It only took us a few minutes to rearrange the common room, so it was a perfect little yoga studio. We had plenty of space for the six of us..

Diane made muffins for us, we noticed that they were called ‘American style’ !

the yoga class was really nice and relaxing. Diane oy does such a great job of meeting people where they are. After The Yoga, we had muffins and coffee and talked and talked and talked and talked and talked. It was so much fun. One of the things Gabe showed them was his “let’s do it” video that he and Max made about writing Gabe’s thesis.

We met up with abes freind and Coworker Marrtin (called Martin Jr to distingush him from the main PI of the lab Prof Martin Eiler_. and his GF Kristen and their dog..

we kept eating plums we found.. even after diane found a worm I one of hers.. hey. its protien !

around 5 we headed out for another long explore on our way to our favorite sushi spot.. Gabe onve again showed us a new array of footpatchs that allowed us to go long distaces without hardly every touching a road with cars..

there were soem cool views of Würzburg, Gerbrunn and Hubland.. like this kinda cool looking recycling plant

our final goal was our favorite Japanese Aiky .. if you would’ve told me that one of my favorite Japanese restaurants in the world was in an office park in Holland Germany I would have not believed you but we do love this place. Food is fantastic and fresh service is great. Presentation is wonderful… We try to get here at least once every time we’re in town.

it’s in the same building as a foundation that is run by basketball superstar Würzburg home buy Dirk Nowitski

walk home was so beautiful !

including a stop at our favorite, very weird vending machine… It has all sorts of weird candy and food and vapes and even musical lollipops. I kid you not.

great day.. TOmorrows our 40th anniversary !!!!

nite all, nite sam
-me

DIane. Nova and I woked up early and headed back to Gerbrunn. the drive back on a weekend was much easier than the ride down.. hardly any trucks

We got home just before noon.. .. first order of biz was to do soem shopping while we had hthe car (Gabes temporary german license has expired.. he has to take a driving test to get his permenant licence.s.

first stop was the pet supply place to get food for Nova.

then a major shopping trip to Endeka

e enjoyed reading the labels.. I trandlated soem of the goofy stuff for diane and gabe..

the ceral names were really goofy. which reminded me .. for soem reason.. abot thei ss Cinnnamon crunch ceral box I saw way bakc in 2018. not sure how I remembered it. .but I dug up the phono..

If you look one way, the little toast thing has a small bloack curved smile.. look again and the curve is his nose , the brown stripes are his downturned mouth and he’s looking down in horror

we got home and Gabe took us on a long dicovery hike on footpaths in Gerbrunn and Hubland.

hubland was fascinating. it was an old Nazi airbase.. then a us army nase.. .

you can still clearly see the warstrip

which was liend wiht soem of the best outdoor toys and exercise gear i’ve ever seen !

there were histroy plackards all over.. like wehn one of the zepplins visited here in the 1940s

or when the mericn solderis finally took the city

the playgroudns were really amaizng. check out this giant cralwl through snil !

or these human powered water features.

the pattern that this thing made was amazing. it was two high pressure streams of water colliding. check out what they looked like in slow mothin here. you could actually see these things form in the air !

heres a super market that used to be an old airplane hager from the old air field

Heres a picture of the oppening of the mall in this old hanger. .this was 1998 !.. check out the folks figting for beanie babies !

fron there wgabe showed us a cool set of walkwing opaths down to Würzburg.. you can actually walk or ride a bike without ever beig on a street with cars..

we met up with my freind.. and now gabes friend Nabil. I cant beleive I didnt get a picture of him, wwe had a nice dinner at a greek place.. the first place gabe and I ate dinner at when he was moving here !

then we walked back up the footpaths in the very cool moonlight

super great day ! Its fun gettign to knwo this place !

nite all. nite sam
-me

THe goal today was to stay as cool as possible.. We decided to go to the Elebsee that Gabe and Mya likes so much. A cold glacial lake sounded like just the right thing to beat the heat.

Gabe warned us that it could be pretty packed near the start of the trail and he was right.. but by the time we got ahlf qay throught he 2m 3 plus mile walk around the lake.. we didnt have. ton of pwopke. We foudn a great beach .. I wnet swimmign and we played ball with nova for a long tie. the water was colld. .and the air was cool and sparkly !

by the time we got off the lake, that part of the town was absolutely packed.. and it was hot again..

We did the only thingkg a nature tourist can do in a stiuation like that .. We consulted ChatGPT. and sasked for a cool place with water and not many tourists.. The oracle suggested a 40 minute or so drive north to a tiny gorge called Schleifmühlklamm that was formed around a cold stream.. the water, altritude and shade made the place deliciously cool.. and the distance made it delicosly empty 🙂 .

we climbed up through the gorge that used to be a place that mined and formed whetstones for sharpening tools. knoves, etc.. .. Lots of sool hostory around

and a great trail system with steps and bridges to explore it !

we ran into this guy, his wife and their dog.. and we traded picture taking..

at the top we started follwoing a woods road for a while until the weather started to look a little menacing.. so we headed down to the car.. and got there right before the skies plit and the rain began to fall.

we headed back to town .. achecked clothes and headed to a greek place we’d read abotu in Partenkirchen.. it was good.. the walk was even better.

WE’re really loving being on this trip.. with jsut the 2.. oops. I mand 3 of us :=)


nite all. nite sam
-me

Our goal today was to visit another oe of the hike to resturants up in the hills. THis time we chose Korbinianhütte .. it had been on everybodys recommendation list. Our plan to beat the crowds was to leave early and be there when they opened at 10.. we parked in Mittenwald which was very cute.. then started the hike up.. It was a beutiful hke.. and not yet too hot.

we were at the gate when they opened and were the only customers.. .. the people there were really nice.. tBy this point im feelign pretty   comfortable in my German ,and could order ‘off the menu’ hey made an omletted for diane.. even though it wasnt on the menu.. and for me  i had spinat-kasse brotchen with tomatoe sauce.. bith were truly exceptional.. as was the view..   It wa soooooo nice !

THis talks about lessons that hmans can learn from dogs.. : my favorite was Bleibt neigirig .. stay curious ! and lebe in der heir and jetz: live in the here and now !

THe hike down was faster and steeper.. still beutiful .. there was a track for gravty go carts that ran sleds in the winter. it was so cool to see these things tearign through the woods !

By the time we gt back to town it was full of visitors.. wheihc meant our scheme for startingearly was the right one !

We got back to the car to find we’d gotten a ticket.. evne though we’d paid for parking.. the parking ticket from the automat had fallen off the dashboard 🙁 .. I wrote them a letter to see if they would let it go.. I dont expect them to aay yes,. but it never hurts to ask nicely !

intresting to here what people think of us given our. crazy govenrment now.. stuff like this showed up in many places.

form there we headed to an area with two .. actually three lakes with the hopes of beatign the heat.. it was near 90 and humid..

the walk was nice.. though the lakes werent all that beechy.. .Nova didnt care..w e played water ball with her for about an hour.

she got into this routine.. she’d jump into the lake, grab the ball. .then run up the shore to a small drop of.. and push the ball over it.. so it rolled out in to the lake.. she kept doign it like a loop.. it wass so funny and cute !

then back through the heat to town

we walked by that cool sceicne sop on our way home.. so much cool stuff in tehre.. but still no signs of life

notice the spider !

tonight we walked down tot he middle of Garamish. we had a nice time checking out the river that runs through town

cool moonrise !

Great day,.
hot night

ntite all, nite sam
-me